I recently read this article that I want to share with you. The Spiritual impact of this story is powerful.

“Two men and a boy had visited friends in Bishop, California, and started for their homes in Irving, and Corona. On the way, they planned to stop in Eureka Valley and visit the famous old El Captain Mine. Apparently by mistake, they wandered up an abandoned road into the barren Saline Valley, where their car broke down. They tried to walk back to a ranch house they had passed twenty miles previously in the blistering heat.

65-year-old Arnold Dobson made it seven miles from the stalled car. Harold Mast, Jr., a 16-year-old youth, made it ten miles before he fell dead. His father, 40-year-old Harold Mast, Sr., was found 13 miles from the car.

The irony was, according to searchers who found the bodies, that a spring-fed oasis in a willow grove was only one mile from where the car broke down; but it was in the opposite direction, and they walked the wrong way – to death.

Multitudes of people today are headed in the wrong direction. Their vehicle of life has broken down, and they need something (someone) to quench their thirst. Because of the conditions of this life which are more than they can bear, they seek again and again to have their thirst quenched from the wrong direction.

There are multitudes in our area whose lives are “dry” spiritually. Many of them are searching for refreshment, but they are searching in the wrong places. Others don’t even realize they are thirsty. We who know where the “Water” is must not withhold such valuable truth. When you talk to someone, tell them where to find the Water (Jesus) that will last forever.

It has been said, “the sin of the desert is to know where there is water and not to tell it.”

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his home. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house. A lamp had been knocked over, and the rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door. He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she might be ill, or that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her in bewilderment and asked, ‘What happened here today?’ She again smiled and answered, ‘You know every day when you come home from work you ask me what in the world I did all day?’ ‘Yes,’ was his incredulous reply. She answered, ‘Well, today I didn’t do it.’-Copied-

60th Anniversary Congratulations to Dr. Medrick Savell and faculty, as Southeastern Baptist College of Laurel celebrates its 60th year of service to God and man. This grand old school has spiritually educated so many of our pastors, missionaries, and Godly lay leaders. As an alumnus, I’m so glad I went to Southeastern.

State Missionary F.B.C. will share with First Hispanic Baptist Mission of Ripley in our Wednesday night services this Wednesday, the 6th. A fellowship meal will be held at 7:00 and then Missionary Elvis Garcia will sing and speak. Feel free to share prayerfully and financially with our missionary.

Licensing Service Rev. Nick Lientz will be duly licensed by the First Baptist Church and Dr. Adams Sunday morning August 10. Pray for him and Debbie that God will use them greatly.